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- 10 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
How to Live Happier in 2023: Diversify Your Social Circle
way? A group of researchers recently considered that idea in a new study, concluding that variety is a crucial ingredient. “We wanted to examine what would be the optimal mix of people to talk to over any time period,” says Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
outperform others stands in contrast to theory and evidence supporting a broader scope for organizations. The literature on related diversification at the level of the firm provides some reconciliation of these conflicting observations by suggesting that multi-unit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
Despite the increasing importance of social and environmental practices, they also had a cost for the firm and its portfolio companies. How could the firm most effectively motivate its portfolio companies to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
allocation. Investors who care about the volatility of their portfolio should factor in their decisions the time horizon of the corporation. That generates a need for more data that help investors separate companies that are... View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Optimal Tilts: Combining Persistent Characteristic Portfolios By: Baker, Malcolm, Ryan Taliaferro, and Terry Burnham Abstract—We examine the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira Publication: American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 98 (May 2008): 297-303 Abstract We investigate optimal consumption, asset accumulation and portfolio... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
world of property derivatives. Derivatives help investors deal with the cumbersome, expensive, and timely nature of buying and selling real estate. Through synthetic derivative instruments, investors can rebalance portfolios and transport... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
on five to 10 years of monthly sector returns that are initially drawn from a known multivariate normal distribution. Mean-variance optimization is designed to produce the highest ratio of excess portfolio... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
different types of physicians. By understanding the dynamic effect of sales calls across heterogeneous physicians, we provide guidance on the design of optimal call patterns for route sales. The findings reveal that the long-term... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
following questions: Was Centerbridge valuing Great Wolf correctly? Would CMBS be the optimal financing structure, and why had no other firm contemplated this type of financing? Would the company, in partnership with Centerbridge, be able... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
research to understand when and for whom cash and non-cash rewards increase intrinsic motivation, organizational commitment, and optimal functioning in order to improve the design and implementation of existing reward programs.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
a firm practicing by-product synergy is that quantities of the primary product and by-product are linked, with production of the primary product defining the upper bound of the quantity of the by-product. Optimization of a by-product... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
unchanged. We find that CLV availability resulted in a significant shift in attention towards the more profitable client segments (the weight of the top segment in the portfolio of customers increases from 26% to 34%), but we do not find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
growth of a company. Not surprisingly, firms spend billions of dollars on marketing. Given these large investments, marketing managers have the responsibility to optimally allocate these resources and demonstrate that these investments... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
response to rivals’ anticipated and actual behavior in game scenarios. Furthermore, coaches are subject to constraints on the number of players allowed on their rosters and on the budget available to spread across their rosters. In other words, View Details
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
not need to optimize the timing of their equity issues. Consistent with these predictions, I use a unique panel of non-SEC-filing private U.S. firms to show that the average public firm holds twice as much cash as the average private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
in individual information processing steps of the S&OP process, a tradeoff which to our knowledge has not been highlighted in the supply chain management literature. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-001.pdf View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
Abstract—Operational decisions under information asymmetry can signal a firm's prospects to less-informed parties, such as investors, customers, competitors, and regulators. Consequently, managers in these settings often face a tradeoff between making an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne